Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alcohol Copy Share Image
Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christianity Copy Share Image
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Atheism Copy Share Image
But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Books Copy Share Image
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Conclusion Copy Share Image
The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Analogies Copy Share Image
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions,—the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Happiness Copy Share Image
Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Attention Copy Share Image
We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“They passed the hall, that echoes still, Pass as lightly as you will. The brands were flat, the brands were dying, Amid… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ashes Copy Share Image
Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bees Copy Share Image
To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Coleridge Copy Share Image
The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Curse Copy Share Image
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Intellect Copy Share Image
A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Belonging Copy Share Image
“Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs And vexes meditation with its strange And extreme silentness.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Calm Copy Share Image
O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Kita tidak tahu bagaimana hari esok, Yang bisa kita lakukan ialah berbuat sebaik-baiknya dan berbahagia pada hari ini.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Yang Copy Share Image
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Doctrine Copy Share Image
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing. Methinks, its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Belief Copy Share Image
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I should much wish, like the Indian Vishna, to float along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotus, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Million years Copy Share Image
“Tutti gli uomini nascono aristotelici o platonici, cioè razionali o irrazionali: le opinioni e le interpretazioni difficilmente interesseranno i primi, i fatti… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Amor Copy Share Image
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Angel Copy Share Image
Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
